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Timár, Gábor, and Eszter Kiss. 2024. "Web Publication of Schmitt’s Map of Southern Germany (1797)—The Projection of the Map Based on Archival Documents and Geospatial Analysis" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 13, no. 6: 207. doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13060207

**Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers**

"_These results demonstrate that the Neolithic plague was prevalent and potentially lethal. Together with the fact that these plague cases are found in one of the last populations with Neolithic Farmer ancestry observed in Scandinavia, we believe that plague could have been a contributing factor to the Neolithic decline._"

Seersholm, F.V., Sjögren, KG., Koelman, J. et al. Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-076

@archaeodons @science @biology

Earlier today I watched a panel on . The topic of concern is not important; however, what is important is the obstinacy of the host and the participants. Is there an all encompassing human imperative to dissemble one's feelings and the truth whilst trying to win a argument?

The English word 'ecclesiastical' is derived from Ancient Greek 'ekklēsíā', which meant "assembly, congregation", and later "church".

You wouldn't say it at first glance, but it's 'ekklēsíā' that became French 'église', Italian 'chiesa', Spanish 'iglesia', Portuguese 'igreja' – and many more.

Click the infographic to learn more.

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**The Danelaw: The Scandinavian Influence on English Identity**

"_Perhaps it is a possibility that these English noblemen and clergymen and some portion of the common people felt a certain fear of these foreigners, not just because of the invading force that the Great Armies were comprised of, but because these men and women from across the sea were so different yet so similar and perhaps it was because of these similarities that these two cultures were able to form a cultural hybrid in the eastern half of England where even today we can still find faint traces of Scandinavian influence._"

scholarsarchive.library.albany

@histodon @histodons @medievodons

**What’s another word for ‘neuronal map-maker’?**

"_Researchers discover microscopic ‘brain thesaurus’ that lets neurons derive meaning from spoken words_"

news.harvard.edu/gazette/story

@science

900,000 BC:
What Can Archaeologists Tell Us About Prehistoric Britain?

Digging For Britain with Dr Alice Roberts @aliceroberts
& featuring comments by Dr Chris Stringer
youtube.com/watch?v=CsPVVRkKzK

🎥 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 **How Chinese Brands Are Dominating U.S. Rivals Like McDonalds and Apple**

"_Major American brands like Apple, Nike, Starbucks and McDonald’s are rapidly losing market share in China to new domestic rivals. Chinese tech company Huawei, sportswear brand Anta, Luckin’ Coffee and fast-food restaurant Tastien are eating away at these American brands' market dominance._"

length: six minutes and twenty seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=hHOSEFRtaN

**The Intersection of Mathematics and Democracy** 🎙️

"_The conversation covers a wide range of topics, including data visualization, gerrymandering, electoral systems, and the intersection of mathematics and democracy._"

zencastr.com/z/lDSSdnFL

**Diverting the Gulf Stream**

"_A brief look at a US senator's proposal to divert the Gulf Stream away from Europe._"

🎥 length: fifty three seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=J2li3AGjiE

@histodon @histodons

**‘Whatchamacallit’, ‘gizmo’ and ‘thingamajig’: what we say when we can’t find the right word – and why**

"_Apparently, the struggle to find the right word is real and has been for some time, because the Oxford English Dictionary has its own category for these terms, labelled “thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown”. It includes 64 entries and some records go back as far as the early middle English period (1100–1300)._"

theconversation.com/whatchamac

@linguistics

**Split Infinitives in Early Middle English**

"_The split infinitive is one of seven syntactic properties that English is said to share with Old Norse, and I will show that, on the basis of the area and date of its first occurrence, Norse origin is unlikely._"

van Gelderen, E. (2016). Split Infinitives in Early Middle English. Language Dynamics and Change 6, 1, 18-20, Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00601 [Accessed 07 July 2024]

@linguistics

**The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’**

"_....this study explores the comparative archaeologies and histories of slave markets in order to examine the potential form and function of these sites, and how they might have operated as part of the wider, interconnected Viking world._"

Raffield, B. (2019) ‘The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’’, Slavery & Abolition, 40(4), pp. 682–705. doi: doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2019..

@histodon @histodons @archaeodons

**Why Reading in Translation Fails Us – Interview with Tim Griffith, creator of Picta Dicta**

"_Who killed Latin? Why should we bother to learn Latin and Ancient Greek, instead of just reading the great works in translation? Why does translation fail us?_"

🎥 length: one hour and thirty six minutes.

youtube.com/watch?v=0iPyrul1ND

@StephenMoore Thank you for following. I look forward to conversing in the future.

As it becomes ever clearer (and documented) that artificial intelligence is highly dependent on exploiting human labour - from creatives whose content is stolen, to the low-paid staff who help sort & train AI programmes - once again we can see that a 'new economy' promised by the Tee-shirted 'revolutionaries' of Silicon Valley is nothing other than a reboot of C19th exploitative economic practice....

So, one important Q. for modern society is how to bring these new robber barons to heel!

#AI

@Cosmosis Thank you for following. I look forward to conversing in the future.

**Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province**

"_Here, we examine evidence for three different socioeconomic rates that are available from the archaeological record for Roman Britain. We find that all three measures show increasing returns to scale with settlement population, with a common elasticity that is consistent with the expectation from settlement scaling theory._"

Scott G. Ortman et al., Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province. Sci. Adv. 10, eadk5517 (2024). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk5517

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